Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-17
IN GENERAL.

The bodies of 800 Chinese have been
disnterred and shipped to China from San
Francisco this week
There were II 1923 persons killed by wild
beasts and snakes in the province of Ben
gal, India, during 1856.
a western paper announces that the
name of Hell's Bend, ILL.,, has been changed
to Pleasant Grove.
The birth of the first white baby in South
Sioux City, Neb., the other day, was cele,
brated by the citizens serenading the new
conner and presenting him with a corner
lot.
short crop of coffee in Brazil a great
increase in consumption and gambling by
syndicates are expected to add $50, O00, coo
to the cost of coffee drinking in the United
States this year.
What the planting can do to reclaim and
make valuable waste sections of land, ap-
pears from the fact that in the past 80 years
over 10000 acres on Cape Cod, formerly of
barren sand, have been covered with thirty
ing forests.
Charles A. Stafford of Hartford, Conn,
owns house close to a large steam fan op-
Grated by the American screw company.
Stafford has sued the company for $4,000
damages to his property and health The
AaA NauoSs llle uOuse 10 snake ana renders
talking in an ordinary tone impossible
The time from Shanghai to New York is
now % days, and, allowing eight DAYS for
crossing the Atlantic, this gives SO DAYS be-
tween Shanghai and Liverpool. This beats
the quickest time on the Suez route by
eight days.
An employer in Rhode Island factory
town recently paid his employees 800 on
Saturday in new bills secretly marked. On
the following Monday $400 worth of these
marked bills were placed in bank by the
saloon keepers of the place
1t is reported that hidden treasure to the
value of $40, 900 has been discovered
| in the palace of deceased vizier at Rabat
Morocco. The sultan, it is said, has confis-
Gated the treasure, and is having it convey
ed to the imperial Golfers.
The San Francisco people are in quanda-
ry to know what to do with $3.50, 900
which the last Congress appropriated on its
closing night session for the site of new
postoffice in San Francisco The trouble is
that no eligible location can be bought for
the sum appropriated or any thing like it.
A new and splendid variety of asparagus
has been discovered by the Russians on the
steppes of Akhal-Tekiz. 1t grows wild to
the height of five or six feet, and the stalks
are nearly as thick as a mans arm. One
of them is said to be large enough to sup
| ply ten Russian soldiers with a sufficient
meal, while the flavor is equal to that of the
best European kinds.
There was shower of stones near Do
lores, in the volcanic region of the Argen-
tine Republic, few weeks ago. which last
ed for more than a minute. The stones
fell as thick as hail, and varied in size from
a pebble to very respectable boulder.
| Great damage was done to trees, while
| barns and outhouses were demolished, ma
ny domestic animals killed, and large num-
bers of wild geese and hawks ON the wing.
81 am told, >" said Gen. Sherman the 9th
er day, that within short time a back
country man came into the town of Cum
berland, w. Va, accompanied by a colored
man and began to make inquiries as to the
selling price OF niggers. He wanted to
sell his colored man, so he said, and he
came to town for that purpose. Neither
he nor the darkey knew anything about
emancipation or any of the events connect
ed with the war, 1t seems almost impossi-
BILE that such a thing, should occur over 20
years after the close of the war, and yet it
may have occurred"
The English steamers were never so
troubled by stowaways as they have been
this season. It is a common thing to find
couple of dozen or so at a time They make
friends with the men who load the vessels
and are put away wherever they can be So
creted, In vessels that bring over brick
the leaders will build up a little room around
| two or three men, and in several cases
from dozen to two dozen men have been
! thus secreted. Most of them ave tramps.
They only remain in their hiding places till
the vessel is well out TO sea, when they
make their appearance, to be supported
during the rest of the voyage.
This despatch of the 7th inst. from Dub
| lin, Ireland, shows under what circum-
stances the much talked of Irish evictions
are oftentimes made "'The evictions at
Bodyke were continued today. Tenant
Mcnamara, who was behind in his rent, de-
Tended his house, but the bailiffs broke a
hole in the wall Logs and boiling water
were thrown through the hole at the evict-
ing forces A policeman who was holding
the Colonel's umbrella dashed through the
opening made by the bailiffs, and other Off
GERS followed him. A fight ensued and the
tenants were evicted and afterward arrest
ed The bailitfs charge the tenants with
having thown vitrol upon them, but this is
denied. tenant named Murphy made
similar resistance against eviction from his
holding"
A San Francisco paper tells the story
the long journey and safe arrival of a lissz
tie German girl who travelled alone all IL
way from her native land to that city IL,
name is Cresencia Schwartz, and her az
is II years. Without understanding on
word Of English this little Teutonc maidt
traversed the broad Atlantic ocean anSa
crossed the American continent without 9S
companion, trusting solely for her safei4a
during her 1000 miles journey ON the kindpl
ness of the people whom she CHANGED u
meet, Her widowed mother in Germany
was too poor to support her, and an uncle;
in San Francisco having offered TO adopts
her the mother prepared little baggage,
gave kiss of farewell, and despatched her